Salamence VMAX
Darkness Ablaze · #194 · Rare Rainbow · Modern · 2020
Pulling Salamence VMAX in a Darkness Ablaze pack is about 3.8% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Salamence VMAX market value
Salamence VMAX (Darkness Ablaze #194) has a live market value of 1,466 Sparks, about $14.66 at the latest market price. That market price for Salamence VMAX was last updated on October 19, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 1,466 Sparks is the figure shown for Salamence VMAX in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Salamence VMAX, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 1,246 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Darkness Ablaze pack is 500 Sparks; this card's market value is 1,466 Sparks. Among the 201 priced cards in Darkness Ablaze, Salamence VMAX is the 3rd most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 21 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Charizard VMAX at 3,871 Sparks.
How to pull Salamence VMAX
In a Darkness Ablaze pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Rainbow card about 3.8% of the time. In other words, about one Darkness Ablaze pack in 26 lands a Rare Rainbow card in that slot. Salamence VMAX is one of 7 priced Rare Rainbow cards in Darkness Ablaze that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Darkness Ablaze: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Darkness Ablaze page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Darkness Ablaze box commits its card order before the first pack is sold, so each rip can be checked once the box sells out.
Rarity and era
Salamence VMAX is a Rare Rainbow card, number 194 in Darkness Ablaze. Darkness Ablaze lists 7 Rare Rainbow cards out of 209 cards in total, about 3% of the set list. Among the 7 priced Rare Rainbow cards, market values run from 188 Sparks to 1,742 Sparks, and Salamence VMAX ranks 2nd of them. Darkness Ablaze is part of the Sword & Shield series and sits in the Modern era of the PackLab catalog. Modern-era sets are recent and widely opened, and their chase cards are usually the full-art and illustration rares.
About Darkness Ablaze
Darkness Ablaze was released on August 14, 2020 and lists 209 cards on PackLab, 201 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Darkness Ablaze carry a combined market value of 23,388 Sparks. By market value, Salamence VMAX sits just below Butterfree VMAX (1,742 Sparks) and just above Scizor VMAX (1,157 Sparks).
